Celebrate PRIDE 2024 at Emmanuel!
Emmanuel Church welcomes you to our 2024 celebration of Pride. We welcome, affirm, and most importantly, LOVE all people and take time during this special month to honor members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Join us for a gallery exhibition or concert and visit us at our table at Mt. Vernon Pride or Baltimore Pride, and know that you are always welcome at our Sunday worship at 8:30am or 10:30am. Read on for all the details!
Gallery Blue Door at Emmanuel
June 7 - 30 (see open hours below)
Emmanuel remains a parish and space that celebrates love and identity in all the ways it appears in our community. In celebration of Pride 2024, we are excited to host our neighbors at Gallery Blue Door by displaying the work of local LBGTQ+ artists throughout the month of June. Each weekend, the gallery will open out to Read Street welcoming visitors to view and appreciate our space and the work displayed in it! Keep up with show details and special announcements here. The Gallery will be open on the following occasions:
Friday, June 7 at 6:00pm: Festive Opening event followed by Glitter and be Gay! concert at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 8, 11:00am - 6:00pm: Charles Street Promenade
Friday, June 14 3:00pm - 7:00pm: Mt. Vernon Pride
all other Fridays: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
all other Saturdays and Sundays: 12 Noon - 4:00pm
Glitter and be Gay!
A Concert Celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s music
Friday, June 7 at 7:30pm
To mark Pride month, The Emmanuel Choir presents a program celebrating the music of Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) — including the show-stopping aria from his 1956 musical Candide, “Glitter and be gay!” In addition to popular selections from Bernstein’s many stage scores, including West Side Story, The Emmanuel Choir sings portions of his monumental 1971 Mass and a complete performance of the 1965 masterpiece Chichester Psalms. This concert is hosted by Baltimore's own Brooklyn Heights! Don’t miss this fun and varied concert extravaganza, as we celebrate Baltimore Pride and bring our 2023–2024 Music at Emmanuel season to a fabulous and festive close. Find more information and purchase your tickets here!
PRIDE of Mt. Vernon
Friday, June 14, 3:00pm - 7:00pm
200 Block of W. Read Street
Emmanuel is overjoyed to once again join this Pride filled street festival featuring a stage with musical entertainment, local vendors, artists, and businesses, kid activities, & more! Going its our third year, PRIDE of Mt Vernon, in collaboration with PRIDE Baltimore, The Drinkery, MVR, & Adam Galaxy Vintage Showroom, is proud to host this street festival in Mt Vernon, the neighborhood community where it all began years ago, and to begin a weekend of fun and festivities! PRIDE of Mt. Vernon highlights area businesses while celebrating the local LGBTQ+ community and inviting all to dance in the streets, eat until you’re stuffed, enjoy a few drinks, and shop until you drop in the neighborhood where it all began!
Baltimore Pride Parade and Block Party
Saturday, June 15
Charles Village
First, look for Emmanuel’s people in the parade where we will join our neighboring Episcopal parishes to witness to the power of LOVE. Ever wondered if there were Christian churches that love God and love, include, affirm, and honor LGBTQIA+ people? Well, there are and we are looking forward to celebrating Pride together again this year. After the parade be sure to continue on down Charles Street to the Block Party where you’ll find smiling Emmanuelites staffing our colorful booth and handing out special Pride Church Merch!